Cheer up folks, winter can’t last for ever. Here’s another inspirational picture!
One of Scotland’s most picturesque lochs (and that’s saying something!). Can you name it?
Wild Fishing in Scotland
Assynt 2013…sort of
Corporal Johan Tittenstein Graf von Klink is a no-show for the 2013 fishing holiday due to expending all his annual leave on a 3 week ‘strength through joy’ honeymoon, or something like that. This left the rest of us all wandering around in a state of confusion unable to function without his rod of iron [...]
Return to Assynt…and more!
I’m going fishing tomorrow. It’s perhaps long overdue, having just spent about 10 days in Scotland without once unsheathing my rod. But to be fair this particular holiday, avec oiseaux, was never about the fishing, it was more about hillwalking and sightseeing etc. It could be seen as a recce for future missions though – [...]
Assynt Blog 2012
Introduction So, it’s that time of year again. Holiday over, all that remains is to once again share my experiences with fellow pilgrims that are repeatedly drawn back to Assynt for that all too brief escape from the dismal reality of modern life . With each passing year it grows increasingly painful to drive out [...]
It’s coming…
Almost there, few days to go. Assynt 2012 is about to get underway. Sweet Christmas where are the years going?! Anyway, I’ve tied up a few stalwarts and a couple of new and untested flies as a token gesture towards preparation. We have some Sedgehogs, a Mayfly, couple of Bob’s Bob flies, a Silver Dabbler [...]
A loch somewhere..
A couple of weeks ago myself and several members of the Yorkshire Fly Fishing Tech 9 Crew Rasclarts went off on another Scotland mission. We revisited a scenic loch we’ve been to before which has the added benefits of having a bothy within spitting distance, and big beautiful fish. Well, at least one big [...]
Gangbang sex, fake passports and wild brown trout
So, it seems that if you Google the keywords ‘Flyfishing’ + ‘Blog’ we’re now #1. Great news because it must mean that plenty of people are hitting the site! It’s always great to receive comments as well but because the blog is becoming quite popular we seem to get a lot more spam comments which [...]
Assynt 2011
Be prepared to climb off that grammar outrage bus and enter a world where tenses past, present and future merge before your eyes…a world where the concept of a blog becomes bloated like a festering, decomposing corpse of literary standards. My wasted years. My stifled creativity, my hatred of mushrooms, fighting dogs and flour-coated baps..all [...]
Bothy adventure
Just had an excellent weekend in Scotland, making use of one of the many bothies available tartan-side as well as doing a spot of fishing. I won’t tell you exactly where we went, sometimes naming places on the dirty interweb brings unsustainable pressure on remote places. It’ll take just enough effort to work out where [...]
Bob’s Bob Fly – an essential loch pattern
Tying this fly is very much like making love to a beautiful woman. First, make sure you’ve got a tight grip on your shank. Then, make sure your cock is firm but not too stiff. Finally, don’t leave a huge blob of varnish on the head. Anyway.. Whenever I go fishing for wild browns, this [...]
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